[clug] case-insensitive file system
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jun 16 01:19:47 GMT 2004
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:05:47AM +1000, Bill Clarke wrote:
> David Gibson wrote, On 16/06/04 10:54:
> > No, it's really not a trivial task in userspace. The only way to do a
> > case-insensitve lookup from userspace is list and scan the entire
> > directory manually. Ugly and slow.
>
> not if the file names are only stored lower- (or upper-) case.
True enough. I was assuming a case-insensitive, but case-preserving
filesystem.
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